Friday, January 27, 2012

words

The last of the sun lit the valley in ways that made all the
best myths of my childhood seem possible, golden rays falling on green so deep
and on a cloudbank the greatest painters of the world could not capture and,
yes, on her skin and on her hair, and splashing off the blue of her eyes. We
lay next to each other on the warm bonnet of the borrowed Rover, our fingers
intertwined, and I said, "thanks for coming with me today," and she
said, "I wouldn't have missed it for the world." I wanted to say so
much more, but sometimes when I need them most, words elude me.